Road Music

Hello workers of the world,



It's been too long. The illuminate have been hard at work in keeping me away from this blog with their futile efforts at grounding The Free Press and our Internet presence but we have triumphed and Radio Free Glenn is back on air.



How are you?



I'm good.



This will be a short post with no ranting. I have to warm up with a couple of diatribes off air before I can unleash it on Blogger. For now I will keep it safe (at least I assume this will be a safe discussion) and we'll talk music. We got back from Tour 2.0: The United States Edition last week and I feel pretty good. We had some great shows, met more awesome folks and felt energized and wanting more. A very stark contrast from February. Maybe it was the better weather. Maybe the Sam Adams, maybe it was less time in The Van (aka the den of inequity). But I think it was the music. We had a far superior cache of tunes with us this time as The Van has a decent stereo now and I picked us up the all important tool- the MP3 audio cable. So we had gigabytes of rock at our fingertips. Also hours of Derek and Clive, " 'I says, what you mean 'allo?' ". The way down we didn't listen to much as it was late at night and we were trying to conserve energy for the 12 hour drive that finished with us playing a show.



I think it was actually after a trip to Best Buy were Alex, Jesse and I were enthralled by the exceptional Panic at the Disco video for "9 in the Afternoon" so much that we bought the disc-videos still work it turns out.



Funny thing about the Panic at the Disco record... it's fucking great. More funny, the guy who mastered it, Scott Hull (music nerds right now are saying noooo fucking way, your disc was mastered by Hull???) did our record...serendipity...the fates are always working. Ya so the Panic disc is fantastic. Yes, they have borrowed heavily from many a Beatles track but I'd rather hear young bands lifting from the 60's as opposed to the eighties, especially from the greatest. My only critique is it's about 5 tracks too long. All the great work stops at track 10. The guitar tones are awesome, the vocals are outstanding and they have brought their craft to a level well and above a majority of their contemporaries (Fall Out Boy, take note).



Other great tunes that got us through Vermont, Mass, Maine, Rhode Island and then back the Great White North.



Maroon 5 Live...they are great band, hope their next record is better.



The fucking Coldplay tune "Violet Hill"...pound those quarter notes!!!



Muse. I will be posting about this band soon. I'll admit I'm late to the party on this band but they fucking OWN!!



OK Computer. Ya it's still the fucking best record of the last 15 years.



Wilco "Sky Blue Sky". Turns out Jeff Tweedy can right happier songs and they are still great. Also, these guys are some of the best players in the world, stop.



Counting Crows "Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings". A great album with fantastic guitar work. Hangin' Tree is just awesome, a real 'fuck off' tune.



When I was dozing on our way back home I heard some Peter Gabriel keeping JD and Jesse going.



Glenn Gould I think kept JD sane while he was in the office (aka the back of The Van). Feist, "The Reminder" And as always the Indigo Girls kept me alive while driving us through The Berkshires a 3am.



I'm going put an iTunes playlist of what we listened to while out rocking together for y'all later today.



Signing off,



The Glenn.